Dr. Kris Olson, a member of the KSS graduating class of 1988, received the Governor General’s Bronze Medal, High School Academic Achievement, he then went on to receive a B.Sc. in Biology from UBC in 1993. He lettered in Varsity Football, was a Top Twenty Science Scholar, and a Wesbrook Scholar. He graduated in 1998 from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Medical School as a Justin Potter Scholar. Currently Associate Professor at Harvard medical School
Kris' other accomplishments include:
2009, named to the Scientific American Top 10 Honor Roll (along with Barack Obama and Michael Bloomberg) as an individual who has demonstrated leadership in applying new technologies and biomedical discoveries for the benefit of humanity.
2019, recipient of the Society for Hospital Medicine’s Award of Excellence in Humanitarian Services
Has worked in Thailand, Darfur, Indonesia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Uganda, India and the USA
Dr. Olson is a serial innovator, holds several medical device patents, and is an architect of the CAMTech Innovation Platform (CIP)
